Supply Chain Services

Complex global supply chains are driven by innovation and competition

The result of the global availability of strategic manufacturing and product development partners has driven several trends:

― Rapidly changing competitive landscape -- companies armed with little more than a great idea can seemingly become a market force overnight

― Shorter Product Lifecycles and rapid time to market that don’t allow for 2^nd chances to get it right
― Companies are leveraging longer more complex supply chains to find a competitive advantage

What this means is that your business success will be deeply rooted in how well the supply chain is managed.

Supplier Audits

Supplier audits are a primary process that helps protect the large investment made in developing your supply chain, and provides an efficient way to monitor the health of your suppliers across the enterprise.

Several of the key benefits include:

― Provide visibility to supplier performance
― Maximize ROI from worldwide supply chain
― Efficient way to monitor the supply chain and discover non-conforming product and process issues
― Drive down cost and revenue detractors such as supply outages, recalls, rework, shipping

While supplier audits are based in assessing process and best practices, audits also have a business and relationship dimension. It is essential that your suppliers act as an extension of your company, and are aligned with your goals and objectives. A comprehensive audit bridges the cultural and technology gaps that exist between suppliers and your company ― allowing your company to achieve targets for revenue, cost, and customer satisfaction.

All audits are not the same!

In order to implement best practices you need to know what they are and have experience in implementing them across a wide range of companies. BlueSkye Track provides an independent view of your suppliers and fresh insight into your operations which will complement your staff expertise.

BlueSkye Track's compelling expertise:

― We can assist your company with custom audit design, audit management, reporting, audit frequency, and measurement, which is tailored to your unique operation.
― We have supplier audit experience with many companies across many verticals, allowing us to provide you with a comprehensive view of best industry practices, which is difficult to achieve organically
― Clients from entrepreneurs to Fortune 500
― We employ experienced technical auditors that have business and relationship management skills that help align your suppliers with your strategic business objectives.
― We work collaboratively with your staff to customize our industry knowledge of best practices to your specific business objectives and requirements.
― On Demand Auditors, when you need them, where you need them to meet your changing business needs

We understand the investment made in your supply chain and how important it is to have it operating as an extension of your company. We can bridge technical and cultural gaps to align objectives across the enterprise supply chain. Complementing our supplier audit skills, our experience with organizational level processes and assessment allows us to help you gain insights into operational level improvements and optimizations. We can help you compete in the global market by reducing risk and help you integrate your global supplier base into your company.

Supplier Assessment

Assessments provide a technical review of a specific problem, or an entire process.

Assessment examples include:

― Comprehensive manufacturing line analysis covering the entire manufacturing process

― Specific technical manufacturing issue analysis and resolution

― Product development process analysis

An independent technical review can uncover the process or technical issues that are hindering or preventing business from being met at the manufacturing level. The review can also be narrow in scope ― covering one specific manufacturing issue that is disrupting supply or adding cost to your product.

Product development assessments fine tune the development process to minimize issues which can later affect acceptance of your product in the market and minimize costly returns. We typically work with your suppliers on the development process to:

― help define your requirements with the supplier

― establish design for manufacturability criteria

― transfer the design to manufacturing

― establish a design and development process with the supplier

An independent assessment will fine tune your business and provide insight from an outside fresh perspective. The assessment will lead to industry best practices, uncover missing elements of a process, and move your suppliers toward achievement of targeted business results.